<p>There are a lot of ‘ifs’ in the article and the UCs are no doubt doing what they can to vie for their piece of the pie which includes leveraging the media. There’s a point of diminishing returns as costs increase and there will be a point at which they’ll lose more and more students - likely to privates. They might even be forced to look at the other variable in the equation and reduce costs.</p>
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…In other action Thursday, the regents approved hefty incentive awards and pay raises for eight UC financial and medical center executives.</p>
<p>Marie Berggren, the university’s chief investment officer, was given the largest bonus, $744,950, bringing her total annual cash compensation to $1.2 million. </p>
<p>Among other compensation increases approved Thursday was $130,500 for Jack Stobo, UC’s senior vice president of health sciences and services, under an incentive award plan. Stobo’s total compensation for the year will be $710,500. </p>
<p>In a separate item, UC Davis Medical Center’s chief executive, Ann Madden Rice, was given a $215,700 raise, upping her base salary to $800,000, to fend off a recruiting effort by another hospital. Rice is also eligible for $160,000 in performance-based incentives, according to UC documents. Over the past year, top hospital executives at UCLA and UC San Francisco also received very large raises to counter outside offers.
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<p>Another article on the subject -http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/16/local/la-me-uc-20110916]UC ”>Tuition plan alarms UC board )
…Sherry Lansing, the regents chairwoman, called it highly unlikely that the board would decide on the long-term budget plan in November, as had been planned. Instead, she and several other influential regents said the university system should first try to raise billions of dollars in corporate and alumni donations and look for new tax revenues to make up for steep state funding cuts to higher education.
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<p>I guess we’ll need to see what ends up happening.</p>